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Speaking of overcomplicating things....are we ready for a little bit of a canon deep-cut?
The planet where they drop off L'Rell and Voq's child is named as Boreth. The more astute among you (or if you're like me, a sponge for useless trivia) will recognize that name: Boreth previously appeared in the Season 6 TNG episode "Rightful Heir."
In that episode, the only location on the planet (so far as we are shown) is the monastery; the monastery is run by the Followers of Kahless, who came to Boreth many centuries earlier, following one of the legends of Kahless. In the 'Story of the Promise,' Kahless is said to have consoled other Klingons lamenting his departure by saying "you are Klingons. You need no one but yourselves. I will go now to Sto-vo-kor. But I promise one day I will return," and then pointing up at a star in the night sky and saying "look for me there, on that point of light."
The title of this episode is "Point of Light."
But we can dive even deeper and make two further (conflicting) suppositions!
Both options hinge on one important (canon!) predicate: Klingons live a really damn long time! The Klingons Kang, Kor, and Koloth all featured in TOS, which is set ten years after Discovery. All three of those Klingons were alive and well a century later, when they appeared in the DS9 episode "Blood Oath," so it is entirely reasonable to believe that the child of L'Rell and Voq was also alive and well in the TNG/DS9 era.
Option A
Eventually, the monks of Boreth had their patience 'rewarded' when Kahless did return, albeit in the form of a clone that they had created. I posit that it is entirely possible that the child grows up to become one of the monks we see in "Rightful Heir", fulfilling at long last the dreams of his parents--followers of T'Kuvma, who preached a return to the purest values of Kahless.
Option B
Full disclosure: I hadn't even thought of this one till someone I was chatting with on Twitter suggested it, so I can't take credit. But I thought it was an intriguing enough possibility that it deserves to be heard.
What if the child grows up to become the Albino, from DS9's "Blood Oath"? The species of the Albino is never actually identified in that episode, and we know from Season 1 of Discovery that the child has at least one parent with albino skin characteristics in Voq. The child certainly looked very pale in this episode.
All we know about the Albino from that DS9 is that he seems to despise Klingons--particularly members of the Klingon societal elite. Suppose the child, at some point, learns of his heritage and how he was 'abandoned' by his parents on this distant world, far from civilization, because he was a weakness to his parents that the elite of Klingon society could exploit? That's certainly motivation to hate Klingons!
The planet where they drop off L'Rell and Voq's child is named as Boreth. The more astute among you (or if you're like me, a sponge for useless trivia) will recognize that name: Boreth previously appeared in the Season 6 TNG episode "Rightful Heir."
In that episode, the only location on the planet (so far as we are shown) is the monastery; the monastery is run by the Followers of Kahless, who came to Boreth many centuries earlier, following one of the legends of Kahless. In the 'Story of the Promise,' Kahless is said to have consoled other Klingons lamenting his departure by saying "you are Klingons. You need no one but yourselves. I will go now to Sto-vo-kor. But I promise one day I will return," and then pointing up at a star in the night sky and saying "look for me there, on that point of light."
The title of this episode is "Point of Light."
But we can dive even deeper and make two further (conflicting) suppositions!
Both options hinge on one important (canon!) predicate: Klingons live a really damn long time! The Klingons Kang, Kor, and Koloth all featured in TOS, which is set ten years after Discovery. All three of those Klingons were alive and well a century later, when they appeared in the DS9 episode "Blood Oath," so it is entirely reasonable to believe that the child of L'Rell and Voq was also alive and well in the TNG/DS9 era.
Option A
Eventually, the monks of Boreth had their patience 'rewarded' when Kahless did return, albeit in the form of a clone that they had created. I posit that it is entirely possible that the child grows up to become one of the monks we see in "Rightful Heir", fulfilling at long last the dreams of his parents--followers of T'Kuvma, who preached a return to the purest values of Kahless.
Option B
Full disclosure: I hadn't even thought of this one till someone I was chatting with on Twitter suggested it, so I can't take credit. But I thought it was an intriguing enough possibility that it deserves to be heard.
What if the child grows up to become the Albino, from DS9's "Blood Oath"? The species of the Albino is never actually identified in that episode, and we know from Season 1 of Discovery that the child has at least one parent with albino skin characteristics in Voq. The child certainly looked very pale in this episode.
All we know about the Albino from that DS9 is that he seems to despise Klingons--particularly members of the Klingon societal elite. Suppose the child, at some point, learns of his heritage and how he was 'abandoned' by his parents on this distant world, far from civilization, because he was a weakness to his parents that the elite of Klingon society could exploit? That's certainly motivation to hate Klingons!
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